EXPERIMENTAL WORK WITH CRANBERRIES. 



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Table 3. 



The boxes used in measuring for these tests, as well as for all other 

 keeping tests conducted during the season, measured 19^/4 inches by 14^2 

 inches by 8V2 inches, and no considerable error was allowed to creep into 

 the measurement of the fruit on account of variation in the dimensions of 

 the boxes. The fractions given in the above table are only approximate, 

 it being considered that absolute accuracy is not of sufficient importance 

 to call for the including of large numbered fractions. In all the season's 

 storage tests the berries were stored without screening or hoppering. 

 When they were picked, the vines were cleaned out from the boxes by hand 

 as carefully as possible, so that there might be uniformity among the 

 boxes in the quantity of vines they contained. When measured for storage 

 (on October 28 and 29) , the boxes were carefully shaken and filled level 

 full, and after screening the berries were again thoroughly shaken before 

 they were measured. 



Judging from the figures, concerning the berries from plots D and E 

 given in Table 3, it might be thought that these tests showed a superior 

 keeping quality for early picked berries. While it is not, of course, im- 

 possible that this factor may have entered into the results of the tests, 

 it should be borne in mind that the two plots in question are located on 

 the bog at a considerable distance from each other, and there is always 

 more or less variation in the berries of the same variety harv^ested from 

 the different portions of the bog. Supporting this fact is the fact that 

 last year the berries from plot D kept better than did those from plot 

 E, the reverse of the results obtained bj^ our keeping tests this j^ear. 



